Wire-rope hook device.



N. O. NORELL.

WIRE ROPE HOOK DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 1911.

Patentd N0v.'12,1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

WIRE-ROPE HOOK DEVICE.

Iatented Nov. 12, 1912.

Application filedianuary 26, 1911. Serial No; 604,798.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELS OLOF Nonenn, citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful ire-Rope Ilook Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to a manner of at taching a hook to the extreme end of a wire rope whereby the necessity for splicing or otherwise forming a loop on the end of the rope is dispensed with, and the hook is con nected to the rope in a manner which affords every facility for movement of the hook whether on the axis of the rope as in swivcling, or in the plane of the axis of the rope as when trunnion mounted thereon;

The invention is devised as a modification of that on which a patent application was filed by me on the 17th of June 1910 under Serial N 0. 567 ,464. The application referred to revealed ameans for attaching a swiveling loop or shackle to the end of a wire rope: To that loop it is occasionallynecessary to removably connect by a hook another line or a sling. This improvement has been devised to connect the hook direct to the rope end in the place of the loop or shackle revealed in the application just referred to.-

The invention is particularly described in the, following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section showing the connection of the hook to the wire rope,

and Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same wherein the hook is shown in section.

In these drawings 2 represents the end of a wire rope on which, as in the earlier ina conical wedge 5 introduced in the core of the rope inserted in the bore of the sleeve 3, which bore is tapered'slightly as shown, at an angle less than that of the securing wedge 5. On the outer side of the sleeve 3 a ring '6 is rotatably mounted having trunnion pins 8 projecting from 6 is held in place and insured free rotation by a shoulder 7 of the sleeve 3 and a ring nut 9 threaded on the lower part of the sleeve. On the vention, a sleeve 3 is secured by means of and in alinement with it, and this ring.

trunnion pins 8 are fitted the eyes 10 of a hook 11 the jaw of the hook on which the eyes are formed being deep enough to clear the end of the swivel sleeve and permit perfect freedom of movement of the hook on the-trunnion pins. The hook 11 may be of any convenient form suited to its particular use, either a broad flat hook adapted to receive awire rope without kinking or otherwise injuring it, or an ordinary bull hook for attachment to any required tackle.

A particularlysimple and efficient means is thus provided for mounting a hook of any kind on the end of a wire rope and that in a manner that it may either swivel or be susceptible of rotational movement in a plane through the axis of the rope.

Having now particularly described my invention I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to b protected in by Letters Patent, is:

1. A ring having radial trunnions and swivelly mounted on a rope, bifurcations provided with hearings to receive said trunnions, said bifurcations straddling said ring, the curvature of'said hook being such that the line of draft of the hook will lie in aplane containing the axial line of said trunnions and the axial line of said rm 2 As a means for attaching a hook to the end of a wire rope, a sleeve in which the end of the rope is secured,. a ring swivell mounted on said sleeve, a hook having a b1- furcated portion to straddle said sleeve, said hook at its bifurcation having bearing apertures, trunnions carried by said ring to fit in said apertures, the curvature of the hook being such that the line of draft of the hook will pass through the axial line of said trunnions at right angles thereto the axial line of said under tension. testimony whereof I have signed'my a hook having sleeve when the rope is I wit two subscribing witnesses.

' NELS O. NORELL.

, Witnesses:

ROWLAND BRITTAIN, WM. S. Soumn.

to this specification in the'presence of 

